Mathematics at an Italian technical school

High School Mathematics Pathways

Defining the Two Pathways For the purposes of planning for high school curriculum, Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) is setting forth two possible paths for high school mathematics: a traditional pathway and an integrated pathway. It is important to note that Indiana is not mandating either approach; however, IDOE encourages districts to carefully consider both options before making a deci...

Italian Mathematics between the Two World Wars

The Art of Programming in a Technical Institute after the Italian Secondary School Reform

The Italian Secondary School Reform became effective with the 2010-2011 school year. It establishes guidelines for the different subjects but leaves large autonomy and responsibility for fixing concrete curricula to teachers. This autonomy is crucial for Informatics because it does not have uniform teaching models as do Mathematics and the other classical disciplines. During the discussions abo...

The trace of realistic mathematics education in the school mathematics in Iran

Abstract: In the late 70's, in reaction to both "New Math" movement in the United States and "mechanistic mathematics education" approach to mathematics education in Netherland, Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) has been introduced by Freudenthal and his colleagues. In this educational approach, Freudenthal considered mathematics as a human activity. Based on this approach, education should...

Doing High School Mathematics Carefully

We show how solutions to typical problems of High School and rst-year University mathematics can be written using structured derivations. Such a derivation extends the calculational proof format with subderivations that allow inferences to presented at diierent levels of detail. By using structured derivations and a minimal amount of logical syntax, we can write solution to typical problems in ...